Strange behavior in version1.0

[James Monroe]

Malcolm Sanders writes:
> I am running OmniWeb v 1.0 on black hardware using a proxy
> connection to a CERN httpd server. Earlier today I tried to follow a
> link to http://nox.cs.du.edu:8001/~anon0f5f/weathernet.html.  The
> result was that my machine seized up completely!

> The offending image was line.gif

> Is there anyone out there brave enough to try this themselves and
> tell me if it's a universal problem, or just my problem?


this seems to be the problem
http://nox.cs.du.edu:8001/~anon0f5f/line.gif

console reports:
too much input data, ignoring extra...bogus character 0xff, ignoring
bogus character 0x7d, ignoring
bogus character 0x02, ignoring
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